by admin | Apr 30, 2004 | Business
Union Pacific has announced good news and bad news on its financial front. U-P C-E-O Richard Davidson says net income was down for the first quarter of its fiscal 2004, but the price of the railroad’s stock went up. Earnings on U-P’s stock were...
by admin | Apr 30, 2004 | Crime & Courts
A professional working in domestic violence has updated a long list of people killed by their domestic partners. Marti Andersen heads the Crime Victim Assistance Division in the Iowa Attorney General’s office, and began tracking the number of people killed by a...
by admin | Apr 30, 2004 | Crime & Courts
The jury in the Dixie Shanahan murder trial returned its verdict this morning. At about 10:25 A.M., Judge Charles Smith read the verdict at the Shelby County Courthouse in Harlan. Second-degree murder carries with it a sentence of up to 50 years in prison, and a...
by admin | Apr 30, 2004 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
Searchers last night found the body of a missing angler in northwest Iowa. Harrison County authorities recovered the body of an Onawa man who drowned earlier this week in a boating accident at the De Soto Bend Wildlife Area. Refuge staff members say Ronald Uhl was...
by admin | Apr 30, 2004 | Politics & Government
The top republican in the U.S. House today suggested democrat Congressman Leonard Boswell’s been sort of put out to pasture by House democrat leaders. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was in Des Moines today, campaigning on behalf of Stan Thompson, the republican...